I was chatting with someone a few week ago who told me they thought they were ready for promotion. I cheered them on and asked what skills they needed to demonstrate to put themselves in a position where they were the obvious candidate for that role. They replied that they were really good at their …
Sometimes it feels like things will never change. That you are stuck. And that you will always be stuck. Perhaps you’re stuck in a job that you’ve outgrown, or searching for a new job. Perhaps you feel like you fight the same battles every day, and you’re getting tired of them. You long for things …
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a puzzle piece lying in the street. My first reaction was a moment of lizard-brain panic. I was working on a jigsaw at home and was having trouble finding a missing piece. Had this piece somehow gotten caught in a fold of my clothing and fallen to the …
At lunch yesterday, a colleague and I were joking about what we had done during pandemic lockdown. What we had binge-watched. Courses we had taken. I mentioned Futures Thinking and Behavioral Science. He laughed and said, “And JQL.” I laughed, too, but for a different reason. JQL had been new to me a few years …
Yesterday I wrote the final words in the first draft of my book. This book is one reason that I haven’t been posting recently. (That, and a series of PT exercises which eat up prime blogging time and, well – to be honest – a serious bout of languishing...) So what is this book that …
Change+Management 